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I'm with you on this, for two reasons. One is the one you so ably point out. The other is that there's nothing wrong with a little redundancy. There are two kinds of modification in English. The differences between intersective modification and appositive modification are nicely illustrated in this Language Log post by Arnold Zwicky.
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